Relativity as a Pressure Phenomenon in the Quarkic Ether reformulates Relativity as a macroscopic pressure phenomenon of the quarkic ether. Instead of interpreting time dilation, length contraction, and inertial growth as geometric postulates of spacetime, this work shows that they arise naturally from the delayed volumetric recovery of a perfect-pressure medium. A moving quarkbase generates frontal compression and a trailing wake whose finite propagation speed cΨ reproduces the full Lorentz factor, the relativistic energy relations, and the velocity-addition law. Gravity appears as a gradient of the etheric index nΨ(x), yielding an effective metric formally identical to general relativity but rooted in physical pressure dynamics. All classical relativistic effects—including Doppler shift, aberration, Shapiro delay, lensing, and cosmological redshift—emerge from the hydrodynamic behaviour of a frictionless continuum. Thus, relativity does not replace the ether: it reveals its macroscopic shadow
Date: Nov 18, 2025
Author: Carlos Omeñaca Prado
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9750-5827
Resource type: Preprint
Publisher: Zenodo
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 International
Related links:
- https://zenodo.org/records/17717027
- https://archive.org/details/and-ether-said-let-there-be-relativity-and-it-was-relativity
- https://www.academia.edu/145337460/Relativity_as_a_Pressure_Phenomenon_in_the_Quarkic_Ether